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   http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/fascisticislam.htm Fascistic
Islam
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By Ali Sina.

I am an Iranian and I love my country of birth very much but I do not love
any other country any less. I love Canada just as much I love Iran because
Canada is my home. I also love China, India, South Africa, Bolivia, and even
Iraq. My love is universal. I am proud of my country of birth, my culture
and heritage but I feel the same way for other countries, their heritage and
culture and I want people in other countries to be proud of their heritage
too. What each nation has achieved individually is not theirs only but is
the heritage of humanity and must be cherished by all of us.

Ideas and beliefs are transitory. Actually ideas are constantly changing and
being renewed. Everyday we learn new things and accordingly everyday we
change our minds slightly. Our views  can change  dramatically over the
course of a few years.  This is inevitable if one keeps learning new things.
Those who never change their minds are those who never learn new things.
They keep regurgitating their old beliefs and never look beyond their
tunneled vision.

You can rally people around yourself and create a fictitious unity by
generating hate in them. Give them a common enemy and unite them in their
common hate. Find an escape goat and blame everything on it. The holy
prophet did that. He inculcated the hate of the Jews and the non-believers
to unite the Arabs. Khomeini used the Baha'is and the Jews as scape goats.
He blamed Israel and America as the culprits for all miseries of Iranians.
Hitler did the same. His scape goats were the Jews.

But unity achieved by instigating hatred of another group and highlighting
the differences is not a lasting unity. Islamic unity did not last long.
Soon after the death of Muhammad and after Muslims exterminated the Jews and
the Christians from Hijaz they started to kill each other. The first battle
took place between Ali the Caliph of Islam and Ayesha the favorite wife of
Muhammad. In that battle many died. Then it was the Battle between the
Khavarej, a hard line Muslim group and Ali. In this "battle" Ali lost about
8 men but when the Khavarej  4000. The truth is that these men were not
ready for war, They had gone to protest with no arms at all, Otherwise it is
impossible that in a battle 4000 men die while the other party give only 8
casualty. This senseless slaughter lasted only  one or two hours. Both sides
were Muslims and related to each other by blood.

The ambition for power, the greed for booty and the lust for women captured
in wars gave Muslims incentive to attack Iran, Syria and eventually other
countries. Islam will only grow as long as there is an enemy to subdue and
to hate. As soon as there is no one left, the Muslims will start fighting
among each other as they are doing between the Shiites and the Sunnis in
Pakistan. Islam is a religion that thrives on hate. Muslims need enemies to
remain united. That is why they need "Zionism" and the "American
Imperialism". All Muslims are fighting with each other but in one thing they
are united and that is in their hatred of Israel and America. If you take
away these enemies from them, they will tear each other apart.



Hitler was not only an evil man but also his method was wrong. His brand of
unity founded on race superiority and hate did not last and could not have
lasted. The average public in Germany was not aware of the holocaust. He
killed the Jews and oppressed the freedom, but he was unable to kill the
idea of freedom and the dignity of human being. Today the Germans are united
by understanding and cooperation, not through hate of someone else. And yes
the abhorrent idea of racism is dead. We killed it and for all intent and
purposes it is dead even though there are still few who are racists. The
cohesive force between the Muslims is not dissimilar to what bonded the
Nazis. Islam is also a doctrine of hate and just as Nazism is doomed to
disappear.

Fascism drives from the Italian word fascia, which means a bundle of woods.
This was an old Roman emblem. The idea is that a single stick of wood can be
broken easily, but when you bundle many sticks together and fasten them with
each other, they become strong and unbreakable. Fascism creates the concept
of "we" versus "them". It is divisive and the unity of "we" is sustained by
keeping alive the hate of "them". In fascism and all fascistic ideologies
the unity is achieved by the fear and hatred of others. The political
ideology of fascism is based on "a system of government characterized by
rigid one-party dictatorship and forcible suppression of the opposition of
minority groups" (Webster). Nazism and Islam are both inspired by fascistic
ideas. In Islam, just as in Nazism the minorities are underdogs, their
rights are denied and violated and the might is revered as right. The best
description of fascism is given by the Prophet in this verse "*Muhammad is
the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against
Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other**."* (Q.
48:29)<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/048.qmt.html#048.029>

But times change and today's world is different from the world of 70, or
even 10 years ago. The Internet is bridging the gap between the nations and
dissipating the misunderstandings. Today the fascistic ideologies can no
longer survive. People are talking with each other, exchanging ideas and
discovering their oneness.

1400 years ago a narcissistic megalomaniac demagogue could have fooled
ignorant people around him. Seventy years ago, a mad charismatic charlatan
in Germany could incite nationalism and instill pride in the defeated
Germans of the WWI by inflaming their racial superiority. Today only a fool
will think of himself superior because of his race, nationality or religion.
Today unities are achieved in diversity. Today we celebrate our differences
and are proud of our multi-culturalism. Today people are wise. There has
been much cultural exchange, racial and national intermingling for everyone
to experience that we are one people. Today one cannot call for unity based
on racial supremacy. Of course there are always crazy skinhead youth that
are on the fringe of the society and are  nothing  but misfits and outcasts.
Those are exceptions to the norm.

The same goes for Islam. Islam owes its success in inciting hate. Hate of
the non-Muslims and superiority of the believers over non-believers. Quran
not only condemns the non-believers and relegates them to the blazing fire
of hell, (Q. 2:39, <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/002.qmt.html#002.039>,
22:9 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/022.qmt.html#022.009>,
69:36<http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/069.qmt.html#069.036>)
it also instructs the Muslims to slay them wherever they find them
(Q.2:191<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/002.qmt.html#002.191>),
do not befriend them (Q.
3:28<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/003.qmt.html#003.028>),
fight them and show them harshness (Q.
9:123<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/009.qmt.html#009.123>),
and smite their heads (Q.
47:4<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/047.qmt.html#047.004>
).

But this is a changing world. The world can no longer continue to harbor
these fascistic ideas. The world is now poised to embrace its unity and
celebrate its diversity. Ideologies that promote superiority of one group
and hate of others, like Nazism and Islam have no place in our world.

Today, we have to unite our people through love. Playing with their feelings
of nationalism, race or religion to unite them is unethical and
counterproductive. These are foolish thoughts that would have worked in the
past when people were not educated. It works on ignorant people.  Today we
are more educated and are accepting of other  races,  and ethnicitiesWe are
humans and we share this oneness with all humanity.

We can replace old and antiquated ideas with new ideas of universal peace,
oneness of humankind and equality for all. These are powerful ideas. These
are the ideas of the new era of mankind. This is a new age, and oneness of
humankind is the spirit of this age. Democracy is possible only through
pluralism. Pluralism is the beautiful word, which means unity in diversity.

Setting ourselves free from the mental bondage of Islam requires more than
denouncing it. Many of us who have walked away from Islam are still Muslims
in our outlook. Islam teaches superiority of the believers over
non-believers. We may think of ourselves superior by virtue of our race,
nationality or anything else. That is not freedom. Islam also claims to have
the monopoly of the truth and condemns any other thought as satanic. If we
hold to our own way of thinking as the ONLY right way and look down at other
people who think differently, call them superstitious and their thoughts
unworthy of consideration, we are thinking like Muslims. Only a person can
claim to be free from Islam who has no feelings of superiority in her heart,
who has no thoughts of self-righteousness in her mind and who truly sees
herself as the child of humanity and one with this Universe.

In a free world to ask: "what is your religion" would be a politically
incorrect question. We fight the thoughts that inseminate hate. We do not
fight people. People are sacred; thoughts are not. If we continue this
hatred, we will be disintegrated. We will lose everything. When we get rid
of Islam there should be no more fights for religion or truth. We will be
free to believe in any religion we like and discuss whatever we please. We
can promote our religion and we can speak against any religion. Everyone
will be protected to express himself and no violence or discrimination will
be tolerated.

April 2001
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